2011 is already underway. I hope that it's not too late to toss out some predictions and forecasts for 2011. This year, however, I'll borrow the Post-Gazette's list rather than try another list of my own. These are things that the paper would like to see -- not things that it actually expects to see:

The manifesto posted here in 2007 stressed, among other valid points, revitalizing culture and building on the best of Pittsburgh's past. I submit that among this city's brightest achievements is it's contribution to jazz. It is history that thousands of us celebrate daily with our radio station WDUQ. As for revitalizing culture, I applaud the jazz clubs that have recently opened in town. What better way to show Pittsburgh's sophisticated side than taking an out of town guest out for an evening at Little E's, CJ's or Andy's(in the new Fairmont) This city has more jazz clubs than Philadelphia, a city several times our size. There is a reason for that. Pittsburgh really is a jazz town. Everyone PLEASE wake up to the underhanded way our city's jazz radio station has been hijacked by out of towners. What son or daughter of Pittsburgh could stand by while carpetbaggers steal a cultural asset.